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Snowboards have arrived in Substrata! Summon one from the Vehicles menu (Vehicles > Summon Snowboard), or with the summon vehicle button on the bottom of the screen, hop on and head for the nearest slope.

Gravity does most of the work going downhill, but you can push along on the flat too. Lean into a turn and the board rolls onto its edge to carve, throwing up a spray behind you. Hold space to crouch and charge up a jump, then release to launch. The longer you hold, the bigger the jump.

Your avatar rides properly: standing sideways with feet in the bindings, leaning into turns, swinging their arms, crouching lower as you pick up speed, and soaking up landings with their legs. Ride backwards and you'll switch between regular and goofy stance automatically. And if you wipe out, the board rights itself so you can get going again.

Controls

• W / Up: push forward
• S / Down: brake
• A / D or Left / Right: steer
• Space: hold to charge a jump, release to jump
• C: crouch

Big thanks to UncleBitcoin, who had the original idea and concept for snowboarding in Substrata.

Snowboards are in Substrata version 1.8.5 and later — download it here. You need to be logged in to summon one. See you on the slopes!

AI chatbots are live in Substrata! Anyone can create a chatbot for their land parcels or their personal worlds. You can customise their personality and set a custom avatar. Use them to greet visitors to your parcel, promote your wares, or whatever!

Chatbots are free for any Substrata user to create.

Read the documentation here.

The new River Mouth district is ready! Land parcels are up for auction now, and auctions will continue over the next few weeks.

Parcels jut out into the water so you can build a dock in the water for boats etc.

The parcel auctions will be 48 hour downwards auctions, with a start price of 1000 EUR, and with a reserve/final price of 50 EUR. View the auctions here.

I'm hoping we get some nice fun builds with some watery seaside town and boathouse vibes! See you there!

All the hillside parcels have now sold. Thanks to all buyers for their support! If you missed out, don't worry, there are plenty of other parcels available, such as tower parcels.

To celebrate the release of Luau scripting and games in Substrata, we are announcing the first Substrata bike race!

The prize is a new hillside Substrata land parcel and $100 USD.

Rules

* The race course is around the city, starting and ending at the finish line at sub://substrata.info/?x=236.6&y=589.0&z=1.67. You must pass through the four waypoints on the lap.

* You must drive the standard Substrata bike that is summoned with Ctrl+B.

* You must provide a video screen-recording of your whole race lap.

* The lap time used will be the client-side time shown in the "Finish! your time: xx" message.

* The entrant with the best (lowest) lap time submitted with a video screen recording at the end of the competition will win.

* Entrants must not cheat in any way. What constitutes cheating is up the sole discretion of Glare Technologies Limited.

* The final time to submit entries is midnight 25th July 2024 UTC.

* Entries (lap time and link to video) should be posted in the #competition channel of the Substrata discord (https://discord.gg/R6tfYn3) or emailed to contact@glaretechnologies.com.

The prize is $100 USD and a new hillside Substrata parcel (similar to parcel #1390).

Good luck and have fun!

EDIT: changed end date to 25th July.